Promotion and fortune in Song Dynasty

Li Yuanhao's sword is not pointing at Yanzhou.

Yanzhou is the throat of the five routes. If you seize it, you can drive straight in. The importance is self-evident.

But ever since the Liao and Xia Second Army deployed in the east suffered a series of bloody encounters, Li Yuanhao resolutely gave up on that idea.

Not to mention that the unfavorable results of repeated battles have vaguely demonstrated the Song court's emphasis on Yanzhou. Even if the first two rounds were just a coincidence, after repeated blunders and scares, Song people would understand the outline of the place as long as they were not elm-brained, and thus Strengthen defense.

Instead of taking Yanzhou extravagantly and wasting the few remaining troops on head-to-head confrontation, it is better to shift the target to Qinfeng Road, which is relatively loosely guarded.

After some careful planning, Li Yuanhao personally led [-] soldiers and went all the way southward along the Lingzhou River in silence, passed through Weizhou at lightning speed, and then crossed Qingyuan Military City...

Before the Song army noticed anything, more than 2 Xia soldiers had appeared in front of the newly built Shuiluo City like ghosts.

Although he had already heard about it, Li Yuanhao still squinted his eyes when he saw the Shuiluo City, which had been expanded and looked several times taller and majestic.

With just one glance, he made a judgment of 'not to be attacked'.

Although the soldiers he led were elite, they were all cavalry, and the bows and arrows he carried were never fully replenished.

As long as the guards in the city are not stupid and can easily see through their weaknesses, as long as they close the city gates and guard at ease, they will not be able to surround them for long, or they will either run out of food and grass, or be repelled by the nearby Song soldiers who came to support.

Since you can't attack hard, you can only outsmart.

Li Yuanhao knew very well that he only had one chance at most, and he could not tolerate the possibility of failure, so knowing that the time was tight, he just squeezed out half a day to observe the rotation of the guards at the top of the city and the review of those who entered the city Way.

He soon realized that the defense arrangement of Shuiluo City was far inferior to the thick wall made of loess that was several feet high.

Sandwiched between the east and west lines with successive victories and equally outstanding records, Qin Feng Road, which has always been ignored by both the enemy and our army, has always been calm despite active preparations.

In the first year, they may still have a sense of urgency that enemy soldiers are lurking and attacking at any time.

But more than two years have passed since the day the war started.

Recently, the morale of the Song-Tibetan coalition forces is like a rainbow. Under the leadership of the wise and powerful General Cao Wei, the Xia army has lost its helmet and armor and retreated steadily.

That arrogant Li Yuanhao is probably in a state of desperation and is facing a dead end, so how could he have the time to attack them?

It's a pity that at that time, I had to obey Zheng Jian's instructions, so I wasted so much manpower and material resources to build such a tasteless military stronghold.

With such thoughts in mind, the guards at the city gate will inevitably be more relaxed and slack in their attitude when checking the roads into the city: if they hear that there are difficulties or familiar ones, as long as they sincerely ask for a few words, most of them will be let go .

Seeing this situation, Li Yuanhao immediately had an idea.

By observing the crowds who entered the city all morning, it was not difficult for him to find that the most of them were not others, but the escaped Xia people.

Whether it's Cao Wei on the left side of the road or Lu Ci on the right side, they don't like the back-and-forth Xia people, and they are full of vigilance. Since the day the war started, they have completely closed the discussion field, except for the necessity of the war. Foreign nationals are not allowed to enter or leave the border fortress.

The descendants of the Xia Kingdom, who had suffered so much from the war, wanted to submit to the Song Dynasty. Obviously, they would not dare to join the famous general Chang Shengxiao and the smiling tiger. Come.

If the guards of Shuiluo City had no selfishness but faithfully fulfilled the orders of Wang Shao, who had just succeeded Zheng Jian in military affairs, he would certainly not easily accept these unpredictable surrenders.

But at this moment, the main general guarding Shuiluo City is none other than Dong Shilian, who has made great contributions to building this city.

He dared to do this act of obedience and indifference, so he naturally had the confidence-in his arms, he still carried the Sihanxi Four Roads All Deployment Letter issued by Zheng Jian in the past, which had actually become invalid.

He was sure that Wang Shao would be so busy with the sudden increase in affairs that he would have no time to carefully ask about the specific situation of Shuiluo City, so he was so bold just now.

However, any Xia people who came to the Song Dynasty who could verify their identities and roughly confirm that there is no problem, he can be said to not refuse anyone who comes, and reward them so that they can settle down; Ken finds nine people to form a guarantee, and he can also be allowed to enter the city.

After all, these Xia people who surrendered to the Song Dynasty are all his living achievements.

As the situation of this protracted war became clearer day by day, the number of Xia people who brought their families to surrender also increased day by day.

Of course, although Dong Shilian is an out-and-out civilian and has never been in the front line, he has also read a few military books.

His official career was not smooth for many years, and he finally got Zheng Jian's appreciation and promotion not long ago, but it was only a flash in the pan, so he was very depressed.

Right now, he is extremely eager for the political achievements that have come to his door.

He opened the door, but it doesn't mean that he has no defense against them-if they are not of my race, their hearts must be different, so under his clever arrangement, in order to prevent the descendants of Xia Kingdom from congregating and causing trouble, he simply split them into ten people Yibao, scattered in this city.

As long as the war does not stop, we can't get together without reason for a day.

Dong Shilian thought that by resorting to this method of dividing into parts, he could completely eliminate the threat of potential subtle operations.

Unexpectedly, Li Yuanhao not only came here in person, but also caught the fatal flaw without any effort.

If Liu Hu, who was in the city with Dong Shilian, was here at this time, I am afraid that he would not want to increase the risk at this critical moment when victory is imminent, and would have to dissuade his colleagues.

But at this moment, Liu Hu had to spend five or six days back and forth in order to deploy Wang Shao to the newly appointed official, before Dong Shilian made his own decision.

On this day, Dong Shilian was notified by the city gate guards, and more than two hundred Xia people came to join him.

In this group of people, most of them are young and strong with complete identities and documents. They speak broken Chinese and say that they have been oppressed by the Xia nobles, and they hate it. They are willing to work hard for Shuiluo.

Due to the recent surge in the number of Xia people from the Song Dynasty, it is rare for Shuiluo City to open its doors to accept them. There are usually nearly a hundred people coming in a day. The sudden arrival of more than 200 Xia people did not arouse Dong Shilian's vigilance.

After roughly checking the identity document, he couldn't find any obvious abnormalities, so he agreed to accept it, and ordered the deputy general to arrange it according to the usual practice.

It just so happened that the auxiliary village was going to be built a while ago, and the strong Erbaishia people would be able to come in handy.

How could Dong Shilian, who had wishful thinking, think that his every move was in the hands of Li Yuanhao—more than two hundred Xia Jun elites in disguise, just under his nose, stepped into the "impregnable" Shuiluo City openly, They were scattered and placed in various parts of the city.

At night, as usual, Dong Shilian personally inspected the military village for a week, and seeing that everything was safe, he returned to the government office, changed his clothes and went to bed.

What he never dreamed of was that once he fell asleep, he would never have the chance to wake up again.

——In the dead of night, the more than 200 elite Xia soldiers who he deliberately ordered his subordinates to scatter to various places in the city effortlessly instigated the rebellion of the first-timer Xia people who had just arrived and were already panicked, and launched mutinies in various places in the city at the same time.

It doesn't matter if you are unarmed at first, if you do the math with your heart or not, the elite Xia army can easily kill the guards and take away their weapons.

After they succeeded, they rushed to the city gate, attacked the guards near the gate, opened the gate, and welcomed Xia Jun who was waiting outside.

When the patrolling guards finally noticed the anomaly and desperately rang the alarm bell, it was too late.

The commanders, including Dong Shilian, were decapitated in their sleep before they were awakened by the alarm bell, except for Lieutenant Qi who was sleeping in the barracks and was able to organize at least part of his troops to resist in a hurry.

Dong Shilian's severed head was closed with his eyes closed, and he didn't know whose hands it fell into until his death.

Even the only Lieutenant General Qi who made a difference, the hastily organized resistance was weak, and was quickly disintegrated by the prepared Xia army.

Li Yuanhao, the Emperor of Xia, who was able to rely on fewer troops than the allied forces of Song and Xia, and fought with them for more than two years before falling into a disadvantage, was definitely not as headstrong and incompetent as some Song people who had been paralyzed by vigilance after successive victories thought.

Lieutenant Qi knew that he was bound to die, but before he died in battle, he made a crucial decision before the Xia army found out——

He sent several cavalry to make him rush to the nearby Songzhai as soon as possible, so as to convey the news that Shuiluo City fell to the Xia army in time.

The messenger who shouldered all the hopes of Shuiluo City, which has become a hell on earth, did not live up to this bloody trust, but like a miracle, they split up and ran towards the nearby Songzhai.

After running for dozens of miles, he was not the first to get the news, but the first to calm down and make a decisive rescue decision. It was none other than Di Qing's army who led the army all the way to Lingzhou in the northwest to kill.

When Di Qing made the decision to rescue Shuiluo City without hesitation, even the Song Army, who was used to obeying him because of his great achievements in the past two years, couldn't help but have different voices.

Not to mention how absurd it is for Shuiluo City, which claims to be "impregnable as gold", to fall into the enemy's hands overnight; nor to talk about how the desperate Xia army managed to get [-] more elites out of thin air, and it was unimaginable how they arrived before they were safe. Nothing happened in Shuiluo City.

Even if this is true or not, there are as many as 36 Song army villages adjacent to Shuiluo City, and they echo each other. It is much easier to send troops than them, so why let them meddle in their own affairs? ?

Not to mention, when Zheng Jian highly praised the construction of Shuiluo City to the imperial court, he also proposed that he successfully recruited tens of thousands of foreign soldiers around the city!Tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers plus the Song army stationed there, could it be that there is no way for a Xia army who was lucky enough to break into the encirclement?

They can attack Lingzhou as originally planned. The most ideal situation is to win Lingzhou and join forces with the Western Army in Xingzhou.

"The bounden duty of a soldier is to protect the family and the country." Di Qing laughed angrily at these fallacies, and mercilessly reprimanded: "In order to seek more secure military merits, we let a strong army of unknown origin go deep into the hinterland. Doing evil? I think you are out of your mind!"

He didn't have time to explain, so he directly used the authority of the coach's indisputable words to order the troops to change direction and rush towards Shuiluo City without stopping.

The author has something to say: The historical materials of Jinmingzhai in history are used here.

"If This Is Song History 3"

"Jinmingzhai has 10 soldiers. In name, its main generals are the envoy of Liuzhai, the governor of Huazhou, and the governor of the Jinming Department. But in terms of strength, it is already the strongest fortress on Yanyan Road. Li Shibin himself is known as the "Iron Wall" Xianggong" is not only the iron wall at the front of Yanzhou City, but also Xianggong.

Now suddenly a large number of Xixia people have come to surrender and live in. What is the concept?Li Shibin refused without even thinking about it.His solution is to be very welcome here, but don't even try to enter my house.Move all those who surrendered to the inland, and then disperse them and break them up into pieces, so that no matter who is mixed with them, they will be like a bottle of pepper noodles sprinkled into Taihu Lake, and there is no trace of them.

But there is a problem that his authority cannot solve, that is, there are too many Xixia people here, and so many foreigners who are in a state of war move into the mainland at once, and he, a party-type border guard general, gets a visa. This is not a matter of courage, it is a matter of courting death.

So he acted in accordance with official procedures, and handed over the handling power to Fan Yong, the highest military and political officer on Yanyan Road.Mrs. Fan was in a terrible mood at this time. Li Yuanhao surrendered and the Xixia people defected. The situation suddenly became clear. Li Shibin, your courage is too low. This is a good thing. No matter how many people come, you will accept them all.

Just put it in your Jinming Village, isn't there a total of 36 branches in Jinming Village?A little bit of dispersal in each village, isn't that the same as dispersing in the interior?Moreover, it also saved travel expenses and strengthened the strength of Jin Mingzhai!

The typical civil servant's pig-headedness attack, the layman has to lead the layman.But what shocked people's jaws was that Li Shibin actually agreed... I really have nothing to say, but I should be able to find the reason.It's not that pig-head disease is contagious, that Li Shibin was assimilated, or that he was suppressed by civil officials and had to execute it, but that he was too confident.

The self-confidence accumulated by the two generations of Tiebi Xianggong and his son made him look down on Li Yuanhao at all, especially before and after the outbreak of the Song and Xia Wars, Dangxiang people had long been haunted near Jinmingzhai. The backs of the party cavalry, those people ran and shouted-the iron wall gentleman is here, brother, where is your courage?

The answer was neat and uniform, and it fell to the ground! (Hearing the name of Mr. Tiebi, everyone dared to fall to the ground)

This kind of thing happened a lot, coupled with Li Yuanhao's recent combat performance like a bandit, Li Shibin despised himself very much.Still need to be careful?The courage is low, it seems that Mr. Fan is right.

As Master Fan wished, and even more as Li Yuanhao wished, a large number of Xixia people were scattered and resettled to various key points in Jinmingzhai.Time passed, and soon the New Year came, and Jinming Village in the first month celebrated with the whole Song Dynasty.In such days, Li Shibin did not relax, his army was very strict, and he himself even patrolled the various villages.On this day, he took his son Li Huaibao to Huangdui Village, everything was safe and normal.

He lived here that day.

The incident happened in the early hours of the next day. Li Shibin was awakened by a siren. There is no record in the history books whether he knew who the attacker was at the first time. Only horses can inspect and fight.But the terrible thing is to ride it out to know that it is a bad horse that can't run!

The general was betrayed by his subordinates in his own camp. He couldn't run, couldn't command well, and was captured alive by the enemy.Only then should he find out who his opponent is.That was the Xixia Emperor Li Yuanhao himself!To be honest, his defeat in this battle was too fragile and unjust, but it was not unjust at all.To say that he was wronged means that he was sitting on 10 elite soldiers and failed to fight. He was not really responsible for such consequences.

It is the honorable and noble old Master Fan.

To say that he is not wronged means that as a frontier general, he has fought for generations, and you don't understand what Fan Yong doesn't understand?At the moment of life and death, why don't you object?Whether it's overconfidence or really confused, the reason for the mistake is not important, what matters is the result.The impregnable Jinming Village is full of spies, and it was disintegrated from the inside.

Also, from the perspective of actual combat, this time Li Yuanhao led the army to raid from the Tumen on the border. Jinmingzhai is at least nearly 300 kilometers away from Tumen, so it can't be reached overnight.

Can Jinmingzhai, a Lianzhuzhai that has both masters and secondaries and integrates offense and defense, not even be able to do the minimum remote early warning?

It was too late to say anything. Li Shibin and his son fought bloody battles that day, and Li Huaibao died on the spot.But before Li Shibin was arrested, he did something that was crucial to the entire battle situation and the safety of the entire Fuyan Road.He sent a confidant to flee to Yanzhou City immediately with his mother and wife, first to escape for his life, and second to report the military situation to Fan Yong. "